Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Cloonoghil, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonoghil
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39140, -8.10509
- SMR number
- RO051-059----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked as a circular wooded enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on the 1837 ed. and as a circular enclosure on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in an undulating landscape. Subcircular grass-covered area (int. diam. 36.6m NNE-SSW; 33.3m WNW-ESE) defined by a rebuilt drystone wall (at E: Wth 1.85m; H c. 1.5m) with larger stones at the base, possibly built on an older structure which may have been a cashel. Enclosure (RO051-060----) is c. 50m to the E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.